Satanic abuse claims ‘doomed our girl’

A woman whose death in 2005 remains a mystery had her wild beliefs of abuse nurtured by her doctors, say her family

Joseph Felstead says he wants answers about how his daughter was treated (Felstead Family)

A family have described how their daughter’s life went into terminal decline
after she was treated by psychiatrists and doctors who fostered false
beliefs in her mind that she was the victim of satanic abuse.

Carole Myers was treated for 20 years by experts — including a former head of
ethics for the British Medical Association (BMA) — yet the family say her
deluded claims went unchallenged. She even alleged she had been abused at
Conservative Central Office by two former cabinet ministers.

Myers eventually died at 41 in mysterious circumstances. A report by a
Scotland Yard officer, Detective Sergeant Grant Lander, stated that he found
it “quite incredible” that the satanic abuse claims were taken at face value
by experts when they were demonstrably untrue.

Her case has alarming parallels with the satanic abuse cases of the late 1980s
and early 1990s in Cleveland, Orkney, Rochdale and Nottingham — where
parents were